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Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/
"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."
#Musk #Doge #Trump #USPol #News #USA #Dogs #Science
#UniversityOfMaine’s #USDA funding restored
by WABI News Desk
Published: Mar. 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM EDT
Maine (WABI) - "Senator #SusanCollins announced Wednesday that the University of Maine’s funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been restored.
"On Monday the University received notice that funding from the USDA was paused.
"According to UMS, the notice stated the pause was temporary while the USDA evaluated potential follow-up actions related to prospective Title VI (6) or Title IX (9) violations.
"Collins released at statement saying:
'This USDA funding is critically important not only to the University of Maine, but to our farmers and loggers, as well as to the many people who work in #Maine’s #agriculture, #aquaculture, and #forestry industries. Now that funding has been restored, the work that the University does in partnership with the many people and communities who depend on these programs can continue.'"
https://www.wabi.tv/2025/03/13/university-maines-usda-funding-restored/
#ResistDOGE #MaineResists #MaineResistance #District13
University of Maine’s USDA funding restored
Senator Collins announced Wednesday that the University of Maine’s funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been restored.WABI News Desk (WABI)
This is money that both supports American farmers and provides an important food safety net across the country.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796
#USDA #FoodBanks #School #SchoolLunch #Trump #Musk #DOGE
The USDA eliminated the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, a spokesperson said.
The committees provided scientific advice to the USDA and other federal agencies on public-health issues related to food safety, said the non-profit consumer advocacy group Consumer Reports. Representatives of the group had served on both committees, according to USDA websites.
The committees were terminated under an executive order aimed at reducing bureaucracy, the agency spokesperson said.
Committee members were informed of the termination of the microbiological committee on March 6, according to an email from USDA received by committee members and seen by Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-eliminates-two-food-safety-advisory-committees-members-say-2025-03-07/
#USA #USDA #Trump #FoodSafety
Today he lost his job.
Yesterday he won almost 6000 #usda employees back their jobs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/05/trump-doge-firings-agriculture-employees-reinstated-00214204
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/usda-climate-change-websites-00201826
"Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO...."
#Agriculture #Censorship #Climate #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Farmers Sue Trump USDA Over Deletion of 'Vital' Climate Information
"USDA should be working to protect our food system from droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather, not denying the public access to critical resources," argued one attorney.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
by John Bowden, February 19, 2025
"A second confirmed case of #ElonMusk’s DOGE team accidentally firing critical government workers is leaving egg on the president’s face.
"NBC’s report revealing that officials at the Department of Agriculture (#USDA) working on the federal efforts to halt the spread of bird flu at poultry and dairy farms comes at a poor time for the administration. #EggPrices are skyrocketing as the culling of millions of chickens — implemented by the USDA to halt the disease in farms where it is discovered — has caused shortages.
"The agency expects prices to jump another 20 percent this year.
"But a spokesperson for the USDA on Tuesday was forced to admit to reporters that Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative has already hindered the agency’s efforts. 'Several' employees critical to the agency’s bird flu response efforts were laid off by order of DOGE staffers, according to the USDA, only for the layoffs to be rescinded after the necessity of the axed positions was explained to Musk’s team."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/doge-embarrasses-trump-again-with-accidental-bird-flu-expert-firings/ar-AA1zog6f
#WhenIdiotsRule #TrumptyDumpty #USPol
This is what happens when you move fast and break things.
The CDC is gagged. The FDA is too. Egg prices have skyrocketed because the U.S. aren’t bothering to try and contain H5N1.
Pandemic prevention or preparedness is not a priority to this administration, and it’s going to cost lives.
Remember that a well fitted respirator and eye protection can help prevent bird flu. It’s time to mask up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
#uspoli #usda #fda #h5n1 #birdflu #pandemic #censorship #fascism
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged it accidentally fired "several" employees to combat the bird flu and is working to rehire them.Allan Smith (NBC News)
“The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
In a statement, the agency said it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.”
#USPolitics #Politics #BirdFlu #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #MuskCoup #TrumpRegime #USDA
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged it accidentally fired "several" employees to combat the bird flu and is working to rehire them.Allan Smith (NBC News)
“There are 444 counties in the United States classified by the United States Department of Agriculture (is that still around?) as “farming-dependent,” which is defined as counties where either 25% of its earnings come from agriculture, or 16% of the workforce works in farming.
Donald Trump won 433 of those counties, with an average vote of 77.7%. Over 100 of them gave Trump 80% or more of their vote.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/12/2302813/-Trump-loving-farmers-suffer-the-consequences-of-their-support
Trump-loving farmers suffer the consequences of their support
There are 444 counties in the United States classified by the United States Department of Agriculture (is that still around?) as “farming-dependent,” which is defined as counties where either 25% of its earnings come from agriculture, or 16% of the..Daily Kos
“A federal foreign food aid program with a Kansas legacy and an uncertain future could be saved by Congress under a bill championed by.
U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, both Kansas Republicans… who introduced legislation to save Food for Peace. The 70-year-old foreign food aid program…, would be moved from the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development and into the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/02/11/kansas-congressmans-bill-would-move-usaids-food-for-peace-to-usda/78387604007/
Congress could save Food for Peace by moving foreign aid from USAID to USDA
U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann has proposed a bill to save Food for Peace, the foreign food aid program with a Kansas legacy, by moving it from USAID to USDA., The Topeka Capital-Journal (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
The cumulative national total is 508 herds across 15 states. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock